Making a stuffed Angel puppet might take real talent but I think almost any of us could make a stuffed spike?

Um, safe for children? Do we want pre-teens running around learning to plunge pointy objects into other kids? One day they might not pick up the soft toy and try it with something harder and sharper... (okay when *I* am the voice of reason we all are in trouble)

For a moment I had visions of this thread turning into a replay of the recent hilarious "Ben is Glory" thread (which I printed for my further amusement). However, I have my own Mr. Pointy - made for me by my friend's teenagers, whom I converted as Buffy/Angel/Firefly fans in the past year. It looks a lot more authentic than the "parsnip slayer". I also happen to have a plush carrot at home - now a cat toy. There is no comparison with Mr. Pointy.

Um, safe for children? Do we want pre-teens running around learning to plunge pointy objects into other kids? One day they might not pick up the soft toy and try it with something harder and sharper...

I ran around with fake swords, knives, guns, etc. when I was a kid. Used to play cowboys-indians, and what not, and I don't go around shooting people or stabbing them today. Any kid with half a brain isn't going to go all homicidal just because they used to play with a plush stake. Seriously.

Actually, my main complaint with this toy is that it doesn't look like a stake. No, it looks like an old, dirty carrot, as darkling said. Why can't they make cool toys anymore? I remember I used to have this fake plastic knife that when you stabbed someone with it, the blade went into the handle. They should make a stake like that instead of making one that's "soft and cuddly".

I ran around with fake swords, knives, guns, etc. when I was a kid. Used to play cowboys-indians, and what not, and I don't go around shooting people or stabbing them today. Any kid with half a brain isn't going to go all homicidal just because they used to play with a plush stake. Seriously.

I agree. I had plastic swords, knives, daggers, cowboy guns, space ray guns, etc etc. Never turned me or any of the similar kids I knew in violent menaces. Okay, the pillows on our couch suffered for years, but then they were vile and treacherous opponents. My mother never saw that somehow. (Do I sound like Calvin or what??;-)

Anyway....a soft, plush stake.....I have now seen everything. Since there are ladies present I will not tell what it reminds me of....

Root vegetable based slaying! Finally...
Food and Buffy, 2 of my favourite things!
I'm looking forward to the new range of potato-based missiles coming out next spring...and maybe a stake made out of butter?

The only problem with that is that stakes don't have handles to collapse into.

Actually, according to the commentary (can't remember which season it's in), that's exactly the way they did it on Buffy...the pointy end of the stake would go into the handle part when a vamp was stabbed. Not that hard...just divide the stake around the middle and make sure the front will fit inside the back. Can't do it with Mr. Pointy, but that's how the big stakes she used most of the time worked.

Oh my God, the scythe is amazing. Very expensive, too, and it doesn't look like anyone has bid on it yet.

Yeah, that stake doesn't look great. And, as gtman8503 pointed out, they did use retractable stakes on Buffy. I think it was on the season three DVD, there is a weapons featurette where the props guy shows you some of the weapon props they used, like the hunga munga from "Anne".